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2021 November/December, Arts & Culture

Poem | Portrait of the Poet’s Grandmother (Lighting Candles)

  • December 3, 2021
  • By author-avatar David Biespiel
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In many Jewish homes, lighting candles at dusk marks a shift to sacred time, the moment when the Sabbath starts—or a holiday, a yahrzeit.

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